The plant that converts thoughts into dreams, tobacco is marked for its evasion by the global community every 31st May. Since 1987, World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) has become a day to be celebrated annually to raise awareness of the harm caused by tobacco products.
Cited to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), World No Tobacco Day aims to draw attention to the business practices of tobacco companies to capture generations of consumers and their interference in policy decisions that undermines effective tobacco control. The effects of tobacco happen not only on the people, communities, or public health but also on the environment.
In terms of health, UICC said that consuming tobacco can inflict at least 20 cancer types and is the leading preventable cause of cancer by a wide margin. The data from UICC also shows that tobacco products cause some 2.4 million deaths globally every year, almost a quarter of all deaths or there are 10 million of deaths due to cancer.
Cited from who.int, there are 600,000,000 trees chopped down to make cigarettes, 84,000,000 tonnes of CO2 Emissions released into the air raising global temperatures, 22,000,000,000 liters of water used to make cigarettes, and this plant kills over 8 million people every year. Its impact to destroys the environment will further be harming human health, through the cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste.
Therefore, UICC set the theme “Protect the environment” for this year’s World No Tobacco Day to highlight that, throughout its lifecycle, tobacco pollutes the planet and damages the health of all people, and this year focuses on the impact of tobacco on the environment and aims to expose efforts by tobacco companies to “greenwash” their reputation by marketing themselves as environmentally friendly.
We all know the harmful impact and the dangers, but why are addicts still everywhere? With that being said, on World No Tobacco Day, our action is needed to save this world. So, what we can do? Here is Twibbonize to answer. We can voice up this movement through the powerful digital communication tool today. Yes, social media is a way. Many frames to observe World No Tobacco Day 2022 are available in Twibbonize for you to use, such as some below:
World No Tobacco Day
by Miftahul Jannah
Link: twb.nz/worldnotobaccoday
World No Tobacco Day with ISRRT
by PP PARI
Link: twb.nz/parinotobacco
rsma- Hari Tanpa Tembakau Sedunia 2022
by Baricho
Link: twb.nz/rsma-htts22
UIC-World No Tobacco DAy
by Remoir Digao
Link: twb.nz/uicworldnotobaccoday
world no tobacco day
by Daffa Rafid
Link: twb.nz/notobacco
Hari Tanpa Tembakau Sedunia 2022
by UPT K3L UI
Link: twb.nz/htts2022k3lui
Peringatan Hari Tanpa Tembakau Sedunia (HTTS) 2022
by POKJA ISMKMI UM
Link: twb.nz/htts2022
UICC wanted the objectives and goals of this day to be delivered to governments and policymakers as those parties are the key solution to step up to the legislation, implementing and strengthening existing schemes, such as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So, when you contribute to taking action and spreading the awareness of World No Tobacco Day by sharing your photo in the frames above, it means that you are contributing to voice up this global major issue. Find more campaign frames on Twibbonize.
